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This strange, aloof brain with a hand
FREDERICK ALEX-
ANDER LINDE- MANN. an Oxford don of foreign possibly
German extraction, a heavy-faced man who even in the provinces wore a bowler hat, was known before the war as Churchill's counsellor and friend.
After he was honoured and ennobled as an architect of vic- tory,
But outside the tight circle of his friends the iste Lord Cher- well (pronounced Charwell) was -shy; inside it he was secretive. The people of the lands his wisdom helped savo knew
· Hille of him. Let them read THE PROF., by R. F. Harrod (Macmillan, 258.), published recently, The book will astonish and intrigue them,
in many
leading economists and himsel
Was a
pies...
If the Prof
the Fe
opart
of the
By George Millar
fully I think, to show how one kind of painting sprang
another, from from
tracing
is
Sir
a distinguished don, hovers Harrod and other friends, was development both by move-
Oxford he was, feinatingly round the question, unpopular at
Did the answer le purs
in the despite the dietary problems of ment and by individual.
Indeed social
welcome Fascinating inclinations his entertainment, a (conies called the "aspira- guest in many
great Herbart Read's cho.ce, of illus lons"), his low diet, la wealth houses in London und the trations and of painters. This is and love of comfort, or his roundes.
not u stock art book, but one conviction that everybody hated Apari from these social with a very special flavour. For excursions, he was taken up by once honour is done to the him?
Harrod writes of Lindemaan's two of the most brilliant men, German Expressioniste, brilliant
and late, Lord Oskar Kekuschka,
the "intense" unpopularity between F. E. Smith,
An wary. the
unpopularity Birkenhead,
Winston Brucke group. On Birkenhead's Coltur reproduction-I sup- fostered by the Prof's wariness, Churchill,
premature death in his harsh Judgments of men.
1930, pose this is a danger only tu But this did not sour his love Church became Lindemann's readers who have seen NONE
Even "sole skar."
of the paintings Illustrated-in for the Common Room.
Thoir association 1s here woefully different from the during the busy war years, if Mr Churchill's business allowed, analysed by an astute and rest- originals. But, the book is value
to be less brain that know and at this remarkably low price. the Prof. took pains there of an evening, Yet not a admired Harrod's admiration drop of vintage port touched for Churchill la passionate and his abstainer's gullet. He was vocliurous-4,10 worked wilh
He non-smoker.
both parties in peace and war. vegetarian with many phobius, Harrod describes the Prot's
He would eat little but "the
mind as "most powerful and eggs, not the yolk, distinguished" and on the next whites of
He stewed apple, rlee croquettes, page as "Highly original," salad with an ample quantity of notes, as Sir Winston haa mayonnaise, Port Salut cheese, done ninself, that net intre- but no other variety....on quently in the war days and
when inordinate amount of olive oil." nichts
the Prot led My query: Did the Prof. Churchill's private staff, the two
T his expression had mado with egg-yolk?
al some arresting and probably unorthodox opinion.
sweet he would have looked of goin to algebrale. formulas,
Lord Birkenhead, who la
broken young Lindemann BOW the Although Lindemann's rooms writing an official biography of dangerous, like a
** Connwer in urma of
were expessively ugly in their Lord Cherwell, will what the
do mag boxer,.. He is not pilot ought to do. Nobody furnishings and Harrod ones nificently he achieves the dangerous, he is Maurice believed him. So ko learned to told him the two daube in bla standard of this exciting, Fisher, the good vicar of a fly, ascended solo to "a great dining-room were a disgrace to evocative, and provocative height," spun the aircraft and Christ Church, the Pro made portrait, which the author calls Kensington parish.
according to his up with his craving for bodily merely "A Personni Memole." corpected theory. It worked.
comfort, even luxury, for his So far, magnißcent. Linde- lack of testo and his combre mann was given the Chair of dot,
He used the most expensivo Phyolda at Oxford and joined
Lindemann was born in Sid- mouth, Devon. His father, Sir Ray Harrod twice says, was "a German on French Alsation," lls mother an American.
In a spin During the First World War, a research physicist at Farm- borough, his mind probed thig
THE HUMBLER CREATION
by Pamela Hansford Johnson (Macmillan, 163.).
riddle any pliat in those days not realise that mayonnaise is men would arrive independently not been open and
who got into a spin crashed. After converting the mechanics
Luxury
the charmed orcle, civilised, holots rather than the best. Ho civilising of Christ Church travelled either purring in hi Common Room He was now Rolls-Royce or roaring in hla Professor I, the Prof..
super-charged Mercodes. Hin-first promloe, from the Travolled with his valet and a Oxford point of view, of scienti chitter of mitensos. flo triumpha rivalling those of Ho was heart deploring in the the Cavendish Laboratory" at Common Room that the Golden Cambekkte, was not fulfÍTOL Arrow trein provided no actond-
What
Harrod, a most per clash. "VT mear, one has to have cident wellor, one of Europe's cee's servant with 'bne.”
A CONCISE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING by Herbert Read (Thames & Hudion 28x.)
·
NTRIKING out from Cezanne, this, study of "modern" art seeks, succes
her
THE PROF..
His lovely wife Libby, vain and selfish, her mother, her aro Calvinist, not Catholic, yot widowed nister,
noley I can never feel it right that nephews Infest the vicarage. Fisher does not deny their right priests in the Anglican or any
other ·Church
have should to shatter his home and his wives; or that good books art privacy: Dealed love by his mado of their marital problema wife, he loves another woman Nine mbrán ago Miza John- but respects the Commandment.
non prochiced "The Unspeak- Even the sne coupICY of able Slapton," a brilliant navel Pamela Hanford Johnson's about a acoundrel. That novel: Kenation, my rogard for the wasn't a Book Society choice. vicar and my hatred for his The one published today quite wife could not take the drakness worthily la. But go back to from this story. My own roots, scoundrels, Mian Johnson,
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